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Unionization Efforts Leave Cannabis Growers Behind, But Change Could Be Coming

Unionization Efforts Leave Cannabis Growers Behind, But Change Could Be Coming
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Unions Coming To Booming Illinois Cannabis Business

Movement grows to unionize Illinois cannabis industry

Seeking higher pay, career advancement and better protection from the COVID-19 pandemic, cannabis workers from Chicago to Springfield have begun to unionize, planting a seed that could reshape the fast-growing marijuana labor landscape.

As Illinois weed sales boom, cannabis industry faces growing movement to unionize

ROBERT CHANNICK Chicago Tribune The Illinois weed industry, fresh off surpassing $1 billion in revenue during its first year of recreational marijuana sales, may already be facing its “Norma Rae” moment of union awakening. Seeking higher pay, career advancement and better protection from the COVID-19 pandemic, cannabis workers from Chicago to Springfield have begun to unionize, planting a seed that could reshape the fast-growing marijuana labor landscape. “The industry has unfortunately just provided jobs, and not the well-paying careers that we all thought cannabis was going to generate,” said Moises Zavala, director of organizing at Local 881 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which is representing cannabis workers in Illinois.

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